 Calvin Ellis Stowe and Lyman Beecher attended Blanchard's ordination; Blanchard's wife was a close friend of Beecher's daughter Harriet.After delivering a rousing commencement address at Oberlin College in 1839, the school offered Blanchard a professorship, but he declined.In 1841, Blanchard founded the "Presbyterian of the West", later known as the "Herald and Presbyter", a radical Presbyterian weekly journal.